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Soil-transmitted helminthiasis affects more than a billion people in the world and accounts for a global burden of 5.1 million disability-adjusted life years. The objectives of this study were (i) to map and pred...
Systematic non-compliance to chemotherapeutic treatment among a portion of the eligible population is thought to be a major obstacle to the elimination of helminth infections by mass drug administration (MDA). MD...
In vertebrates, the presence of enteric worms can induce structural changes to the alimentary canal impacting on the neuroendocrine system, altering the proper functioning of the gastrointestinal tract and affect...
Soil-transmitted helminths, a class of parasitic intestinal worms,...
Timor-Leste has a high prevalence of soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections. High proportions of the...
Globally, in 2010, approximately 1.5 billion people were infected with at least one species of soil-transmitted helminth (STH), Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, hookworm (Ancylostoma duodenale and Necat...
In this time of rapidly expanding mass drug administration (MDA) coverage and the new commitments for soil-transmitted helminth (STH) control, it is essential that...
Neorickettsia...are a group of intracellular α proteobacteria transmitted by digeneans (Platyhelminthes, Trematoda). These endobacteria can also infect vertebrate hosts of the helminths
Investigating the effect of successive annual deworming rounds on the spatiotemporal distribution of infection prevalence and numbers at risk for soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) can help identify communities ne...
Central European aerial insectivores are long-distance migrants that winter in sub-Saharan Africa. Most of them employ the fly-and-forage migrating strategy and differ in their food composition. The composition a...
Soil-transmitted helminthiases are important neglected tropical diseases that result in a notably high number of disability-adjusted life years worldwide. Characterizing the interactions between the human intesti...
Habitat fragmentation may result in the reduction of diversity of parasite communities by affecting population size and dispersal pattern of species. In the flood plain of the Yangtze River in China, many lakes, ...
Both helminth and malaria infections result in a highly...in vivo...as a measure of Th2 immune response in malaria patients with and without helminth co-infection.
Gastrointestinal (GI) helminth infections cause significant morbidity in both humans ... existing methods applied to the diagnosis of GI helminth infections of humans and livestock; (ii) ... as tools to define th...
Polyparasitism is the rule in all animal species, including humans, and has an important role in pathogenicity, diagnosis and control measures. Among them, co-infections by gastrointestinal helminths and protists...
Under-regulated national borders in Southeast Asia represent potential regions for enhanced parasitic helminth transmission and present barriers to helminthiasis disease...
The rapid socio-economic development in Qatar in the last two decades has encouraged a mass influx of immigrant workers, the majority of whom originate from countries with low socio-economic levels, inadequate me...
Helminth infections impact the health of hundreds of ... the low attention given to the study of helminths have impacted biological research and, thus, ... and effective treatments. Understanding the biology of helminths
Overall, the prevalence of combined protozoan infection was 11.7% and that of helminth was 7.0%. Combined protozoan infections ... had a significant effect on the prevalence of helminth infections were the subjec...
Stool samples were collected from 37 asymptomatic children from a previous cross-sectional Argentinian study. A multi-parallel real-time quantitative PCR was implemented for Ascaris lumbricoides, Ancylostoma duod...
Co-infection of malaria and intestinal parasites is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and causes severe disease especially among the poorest populations. It has been shown that an intestinal parasite (helminth), m...
An accurate diagnosis of soil-transmitted helminthiasis is important for individual patient management, for drug efficacy evaluation and for monitoring control programmes. The Kato-Katz technique is the most wide...
Between August and September 2011, two purposely selected rural communities in southern Côte d’Ivoire were screened for helminth, intestinal protozoa and Plasmodium infection, using a suite of quality-controlled ...
Growing evidence points towards a role of gastrointestinal (GI) helminth parasites of ruminants in modifying the composition ... , a thorough understanding of the mechanisms governing helminth-microbiota interact...
Schistosomiasis and infection by soil-transmitted helminths are some of the world’s most...
The relationship between nutrition and soil-transmitted helminthiasis is complex and warrants further investigation. We conducted a systematic review examining the influence of nutrition on infection and re-infec...
Intestinal parasitic infections represent a public health problem in Tajikistan, but epidemiological evidence is scarce. The present study aimed at assessing the extent of helminths and intestinal protozoa infect...
In September 2010, a rapid screening was conducted in 11 schools in the Azaguié district, south Côte d’Ivoire. In each school, 25 children were examined for S. mansoni and S. haematobium. Based on predefined schi...
Overall prevalence of helminths was 7.0% and that of protozoa was 11.7%. Prevalence of combined helminths was highest among the western Asians and...Blastocystis hominis as well as from other protozoan species: G...
Malaria, schistosomiasis and intestinal helminth infections are causes of high morbidity in...Plasmodium falciparum- malaria, intestinal schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminth infections, and the respective c...
Of 87 samples tested, 33 (38%) scored positive for TES antigen recognition by the electrochemical magnetosensor assay. The average concentration of TES antigen in serum was 2.1 ng/ml (SD = 1.1). The positive r...
Intestinal schistosomiasis continues to be a significant cause of morbidity among communities located around Lake Victoria and on its islands. Although epidemiological surveys have been conducted in other areas b...
Tissue inhibitors of metalloproteases (TIMPs) are a multifunctional family of proteins that orchestrate extracellular matrix turnover, tissue remodelling and other cellular processes. In parasitic helminths, such...
Over the past decade, evidence has emerged of the ability of gastrointestinal (GI) helminth parasites to alter the composition of the...Teladorsagia circumcincta, one of the major agents causing parasite gastroen...
Many school children living in Africa are infected with plasmodia and helminth species and are consequently at risk of...Ascaris lumbricoides-Plasmodium and hookworm-Plasmodium coinfection among school children l...
Helminths immunomodulate the host immune system by secreting ... to allergens or autoantigens. Based on this, helminth therapy has been used to treat some ... or autoimmune diseases. As a tissue-dwelling helminth
Gastrointestinal tracts of 28 harvested Pyrenean chamois in the Catalan Pyrenees (autumn 2012 and 2013) were necropsied and sexual differences in the diversity and structure of parasite community, prevalence, int...
For the first set of stool samples, there was no statistically significant difference in the pairwise agreements between the FECT and the FA280 with a user audit (exact binomial test, P = 1). However, there were ...
Copro-parasitological diagnosis is still a challenge in management of helminth infections at individual and community levels in...
The cytokine interleukin-25 (IL-25) is recognized as the most relevant initiator of protective T helper 2 (Th2) responses in intestinal helminth infections. This cytokine induces resistance against several specie...
Hookworm is still one of the three main soil-transmitted helminths prevalent in China, and 39 million cases...
Harnessing helminth-based immunoregulation is a novel therapeutic strategy...Schistosoma japonicum and named it SJMHE1. SJMHE1 can suppress delayed-type hypersensitivity, collagen-induced arthritis and asthma in ...
No human case of paragonimiasis was diagnosed. However, trematode infections were seen in 32 of the 272 shellfish examined (11.8%). Questionnaire results revealed that crab and pig meat is well cooked before c...
From June to September 2010, 645 questionnaires were administered to dog owners in nine city parks to determine behavioural and demographic factors, and corresponding feces from 355 dogs were collected. Dog feces...
Overall, 21.5% of subjects were infected with at least one of the species recorded (8 helminth and 4 protozoan species; the highest prevalence ... there were strong regional effects on prevalence of helminths, wi...
Control and elimination of the liver fluke (Opisthorchis viverrini) is a primary preventive strategy against cholangiocarcinoma in Southeast Asia. A sensitive parasitological diagnostic method is required to faci...
A prospective, community-based, cross-sectional survey was conducted in Paraná (southern Brazil) between May 2015 and May 2016. A total of 766 stool samples were individually collected from volunteers (male/femal...
Humans are susceptible to over 1400 pathogens. Co-infection by multiple pathogens is common, and can result in a range of neutral, facilitative, or antagonistic interactions within the host. Soil-transmitted helminths
Our data raised the possibility that helminths could be a potential therapeutic candidate to...M. marshalli may contain immune-modulatory molecules that attenuate allergic airway inflammation via induction of reg...
Identification of populations to be targeted for individual treatment and broad-spectrum therapy in schistosomiasis-endemic areas, assessment of therapy efficacy, morbidity, and evaluation of control strategie...
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